APES Chapter 13

Question 1

urban growth boundary

Answer 1

a line that tells you where urbanization can go to

Question 2

suburbs

Answer 2

the smaller communities that ring cities

Question 3

sprawl

Answer 3

the spread of low-density urban/suburban development from an urban center

Question 4

city planning/urban planning

Answer 4

planning out how many ways a city can be: efficient, functional, and beautiful

Question 5

regional planning

Answer 5

sprawling of metropolitan areas

Question 6

zoning

Answer 6

the practice of classifying areas for different types of development and land use

Question 7

smart growth

Answer 7

a way to limit a community’s growth by limiting sprawl and maintaining or improving quality of life in areas that already having housing

Question 8

new urbanism

Answer 8

an approach that seeks to design neighborhoods on a walkable scale with everything close together

Question 9

transit-oriented development

Answer 9

compact communities in the new urbanist style that are placed around public transit so people can travel by foot or public transportation

Question 10

noise pollution

Answer 10

undesired ambient sound

Question 11

light pollution

Answer 11

lights from the city that pollute and block the night sky

Question 12

urban heat island effect

Answer 12

cities being warmer from the concentration of heat-generating buildings, vehicles, factories, and people and from the way that buildings and dark paved surfaces absorb heat and release it slowly

Question 13

urban ecology

Answer 13

scientific field where they view cities explicitly as ecosystems

Question 14

green buildings

Answer 14

structures that incorporate various means of reducing the ecological footprint of a building’s construction and operation

Question 15

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)

Answer 15

a program that certifies that a building/company is green and promotes the efforts of becoming sustainable